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Monthly Archives: February 2020
(Art Puppets & Middle East History) Cabaret Crusades (Wael Shawky)
Puppets from Wael Shawky’s three-part video series Cabaret Crusades are here on view at the Met Breuer. I’m wondering about the relation between visual art and history (it could just as well be about religion and history) in a body … Continue reading
(Abstraction) Extreme Illusionism and Detailed Rendering (Vija Celmins)
Getting back to work about my impressions about some exhibitions that have since come and gone, this one being Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory. Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-mins) is one of those artists, women, whose career … Continue reading
(People Are Jerks) Street Corner Conversation (Honking Horns)
[2 pedestrians waiting at foot of the off-0ramp from the Queensboro Bridge.] [Guy honks car horn.] Pedestrian 1: That’s not going to get him anywhere. Pedestrian 2: I know. P1: People are jerks. P2: Yeah, right! [P1 and P2 start … Continue reading
Trump-Sanders-Bloomberg (Non-Normals & Political Dialectic)
I’m putting this out there even if I’m not entirely sure about it. But this is the inexorable logic. Trump trolling the nation propels Sanders forward while collapsing Biden. Sanders push to the front of the pack propels Bloomberg’s campaign … Continue reading
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Edward Said & Orientalism (Some Bibliographical References)
Of course most if not all of my academic friends will recognize this picture and will have read at some point in their lives the text for which it is the cover-image. But from which perspectival perch do we engage … Continue reading
An Icon of American Jewishness (Kirk Douglas at the Wall)
With those man-hands and that craggy face, Kirk Douglas in 1977 is an icon of American Jewishness, ancient and modern at the Western Wall in Jerusalem; secular and religious; performative and phallogocentric. (h/t Matthew Menachem Feuer)
(Diminutive) Ancient Judahite Art (Tel Motza Temple)
Not gods or god-like are these diminutive little figures from the Tel Motza temple site in the Judean Hills, in close proximity to Jerusalem. One can only speculate if similar figures were on hand at the Jerusalem temple site during … Continue reading
